This is a nice resource trying to document the history of computer hardware. Really cool stuff.

Excellent historical perspective on how we ended up with applications filled with annoying interruptions and notifications. It's been done indeed one step at a time and lead to poor UX really.

Nice retelling of the story behind WebAssembly.

Good historical perspective about the attempts to get rid of developers. This never unfold as envisioned. This is mostly about the intellectual work to build artifacts handling the world complexity, and this doesn't go away.

Fascinating story. Some people shouldn't be forgotten.

Wondering where Markdown is coming from and how it became such a success? The piece helps answer those questions.

Interesting historical work. It indeed went through a fast paced evolution cycle.

Interesting research. Can it give insights on the pervasive views of the time?

Looks like that following parts were never written. This piece is interesting by itself though, it's nice to have a record of the early times of SCCS and RCS.

There is definitely something tragic at play here. As we're inundated in fake content, people are trying to find ways to detect when it's fake or not. While doing so we deny the humanity of some people because of their colonial past.

If you're wondering where emoticons and emojis are coming from, this is a nice little piece about that.

Interesting historical look at how and why modal editing appeared.

What's behind the notion? Some historical musing about self-organizing teams and the design they produce.

Excellent profile of Tim Berners-Lee.

Go and read it! It'll give a lively impression of the Web early history. It's amazing how, back then, he managed to fend of the greed of corporate interests in order to make sure his original vision would survive. Of course not everything materialized, most notably the Semantic Web (sadly).

Nowadays, the real question is the fragmentation due to the big closed platforms power grab and the political context. Can we still save the Web? For sure there's no clear path yet.

A tiny piece of history which was instrumental in the way the web and email developed back then.

Interesting exploration of where the strong verb system of the English language is coming from.

Ever wondered about how Windows 3 was architectured? This is an interesting read. It was really complex though, you can really tell it's in the middle of several transitions.

Or why the XML roots of the web are important to keep in shape. I'm not necessarily in love with how verbose XML is, but it's been a great enabler for interoperability. That's indeed the latter reason which pushed Google to try to get rid of it as much as possible.

A talk from Casey Muratori who is pushing his ideas on software architecture. This one is very interesting on the long history detour it does. Shows well how we keep rediscovering stuff which sometimes go back to the early times of computer science.

Interesting exploration about where the alphabet comes from. Interesting debate about the abjad vs alphabet classification in the comments as well.